The Dutch Empire grows to become one…

1540 CE to 1683 CE

The Dutch Empire grows to become one of the major seafaring and economic powers in the Dutch Golden Age, spanning much of the seventeenth century.

Science, military, and art (especially painting) are among the most acclaimed in the world.

By 1650, the Dutch own sixteen thousand merchant ships.

The Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company establish colonies and trading posts all over the world, including rule over the northern parts of Taiwan between 1624–1662 and 1664–1667.

The Dutch settlement in North America begins with the founding of New Amsterdam on the southern part of Manhattan in 1614.

In South Africa, the Dutch settle the Cape Colony in 1652.

Dutch colonies in South America are established along the many rivers in the fertile Guyana plains, among them the Colony of Surinam (now Suriname).

In Asia, the Dutch establish the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and the only western trading post in Japan, Dejima.

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Dutch people View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → Mauritius, Dutch View → Gold Coast, Dutch View → Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company") View → Dutch East India Company in Indonesia View → Japan, Tokugawa, or Edo, Period View → India, Dutch View → New Netherland (Dutch Colony) View → Essiquibo (Dutch colony) View → Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company") View → Dutch West India Company View → Formosa, Dutch View → Virgin Islands, Dutch (Dutch colony) View → Berbice (Dutch colony) View → Dutch Brazil (New Holland) View → Dutch West Indies View → Sint Eustatius (Dutch Colony) View → Saba (Dutch Colony) View → Dutch Loango-Angola View → Taiwan, or Formosa (Dutch colony) View → Sint Maarten, Dutch Territory of View → Cape Colony, Dutch East India Company's View → Ceylon, Dutch View → India, Dutch View → New Netherland (Dutch Colony, restored) View → Dutch Guiana View →

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Colonization of Asia, Dutch View → Dutch Golden Age View → Colonization of the Americas, Dutch View →

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Commerce View → Watercraft View → Painting and Drawing View → Conflict View → Government View →

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